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  • Day 8

    Indigenious Cave Art

    April 25, 2019 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C

    Most indigenous art tells a story to pass onto to visiting tribes and this is the case with the rock wall paintings in Loy’s country.
    The art depicts child sized handprints that indicates safe area for children as well as the presence of water and food supplies.
    Loy also picked up three different dried scats and by looking at them she was able to identify what animals had visited the area recently and that the area or local country was still healthy enough to support life.
    Her story of her country was strongly influenced by the presence of the rainbow serpent which was evidenced to her by interesting rock patterns that supposedly were remnants from the scales of the serpent as it snaked through the valley.
    We were later told that another explanation of these scaled rock formations were that back in history (being in very early history) the area was covered by water.
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